Interpreted vs compiled Memes

Python waves happily at you from its shiny red sports car, feeling all cool and superior... right until C++ shows up with a tow truck to haul its inefficient rear away. Sure, Python lets you write elegant one-liners while sipping your artisanal coffee, but when performance actually matters, C++ is the tow truck driver laughing at your interpreted slowness. Nothing says "reality check" quite like watching your high-level abstraction getting dragged away by pointer arithmetic and memory management.